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Juries are hard put to it to distinguish genuine experts from phoney ones : in one case in Philadelphia, " experts " persuaded a jury to award a psychic $ 1 million in damages because her predictive powers had been destroyed by a CAT brain scan.
In 1955, R . W . Ketton-Cremer argued, " At the close of his greatest poem Gray was led to describe, simply and movingly, what sort of man he believed himself to be, how he had fared in his passage through the world, and what he hoped for from eternity . " Regarding the status of the poem, Graham Hough in 1953 explained, " no one has ever doubted, but many have been hard put to it to explain in what its greatness consists.